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ASX creates more opportunities for investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
Listing smaller and foreign IPOs on the ASX will create greater opportunities for Australians as local investors gain exposure to offshore markets and technology companies, says ASX chief executive Dominic Stevens. Speaking at yesterday's Conference ...

AMP continues goals-based advice focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... potential while adapting to an increasingly competitive market place and technology-driven disruption." "We will help more Australians get more advice, more often, through our transformed goals-based operating system." Other key elements of AMP's strategy ...

Financial advice cannot be a quick-fix: Stackpool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
Australians are still perplexed by financial advice and its increased accessibility and affordability through technology - and big data isn't helping. Certainty Advice Group believes making financial advice more affordable, accessible and convenient ...

Big four hammer bank levy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... returned on average 75% of profits as dividends to more than 800,000 shareholders each year. In addition, millions of Australians have also benefitted through their superannuation funds," Livingstone said. "The remainder of your company's profits are ...

Australians pass on life insurance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... can at least prepare for the worst by protecting them with long-term financial security. "It is widely known that Australians don't take out adequate levels of insurance to protect themselves and their family, with underinsurance remaining an issue and ...

Top super chief executive named ACSI president

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors will welcome a new president and deputy president in August. AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk will become ACSI's third president, replacing current president Gerard Noonan (Media Super). LUCRF ...

Financial stress rising in Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
About one third of Australians are living pay cheque to pay cheque, according to the latest insight from BT Financial Group. The 2016 BT Australian Financial Health Index shows 32% of Australians always or often find themselves relying on pay cheques ...

Senior ATO official tangled in $165m fraud scandal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... that those being investigated have been suspended without pay. "I cannot overstate the seriousness of these matters - Australians must have a tax administration they can trust and the people of the ATO must be of utmost integrity and good judgement. ...

Treasury responds to ABA derision over bank levy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... the shaping of the levy could result in a poorly-designed tax impacting the finances of both the nation and everyday Australians. "Further Treasury analysis is imperative, including on the modelling of the economic impacts of the tax, and banks should ...

Boutique fund joins Bennelong suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... the risk of chronic loss when investors can least afford it, according to portfolio manager Alastair MacLeod. "When Australians enter retirement, and have changed from accumulation to redemption mode, their investment objectives need to change too. Australians ...